Song generator with real editing depth: Extend, Remix, and Inpaint treat the song as a work in progress.
Udio generates complete songs and stands out for song-level editing: Extend lengthens a track, Remix reworks it, and Inpaint regenerates a chosen section. It supports a Voices library, musical style references with Blend and Reduce controls, lyric and music editing on paid tiers, and generation from uploaded audio. Simultaneous generations scale with plan tier, from four songs at once on the free plan to ten on the top tier.
Best for: Song craft with editing depth
- Song-level editing tools rare in the category
- Style references with Blend and Reduce controls
- Commercial-use terms are not stated on its pricing page
- Simultaneous generations scale with plan tier
Stability AI's audio generator: tracks up to six minutes, audio-to-audio, and sound effects.
Stable Audio generates music and sound effects from text and transforms uploaded audio with audio-to-audio. Track duration reaches six minutes, which is long for the category, and the current Stable Audio 3.0 line is trained on fully licensed data under Stability's partnership with Warner Music Group. Commercial use is stated on the site; confirm the plan terms against your use before a track ships.
Best for: Long-form tracks and sound design
- Tracks reach six minutes, long for the category
- Stable Audio 3.0 is trained on fully licensed data
- Free plan is licensed for personal use only
- Fewer song-craft tools than dedicated song generators
Composition assistant for people who think in scores: 250+ styles, MIDI in, MIDI out.
AIVA approaches generation as composition. It writes in more than 250 styles, accepts audio or MIDI influences as input, and lets you edit the generated track before downloading, with MIDI export on every tier and full file formats higher up. Ownership is explicit: on the free plan the copyright stays with AIVA and use is non-commercial; on the Pro plan the copyright belongs to you.
Best for: Composers and MIDI workflows
- MIDI input and output for real scoring workflows
- Copyright transfers to you on the top tier
- Free tier is non-commercial with the copyright held by AIVA
- Skews orchestral and cinematic rather than vocal pop
Copyright-safety-first generator trained only on its own in-house productions.
SOUNDRAW leads with provenance: its model is trained exclusively on music produced in-house, which is the cleanest training-data story in the category. Tracks are customized per instrument in the browser, no DAW needed, and artist plans allow distribution to streaming platforms. Downloads rather than generations are the metered unit, with stems on the higher artist tiers.
Best for: Copyright-cautious commercial work
- Clean training-data provenance for risk-averse clients
- Per-instrument customization without a DAW
- Downloads are the metered unit, not generations
- Stems reserved for higher artist tiers
Royalty-free soundtrack generator that matches music to an exact mood and duration.
Mubert generates royalty-free tracks to a target mood, style, and precise duration, which is the specific thing a content editor needs when a cue has to run 47 seconds. It serves creators through the web app, developers through an API, and sample makers through a contributor marketplace that pays for loops the system composes with.
Best for: Soundtracks cut to exact length
- Generates to a precise duration target
- API available for apps and products
- Cue-focused rather than full song craft
- Built for licensing-safe background cues, not artist-style songs
Background-music generator with a Fairly Trained certification and text-to-SFX.
Beatoven.ai generates background music for videos, podcasts, and games, plus sound effects from text. Its differentiator is ethics posture: a Fairly Trained certification affirming the model was trained with musician consent. Licensing is perpetual and non-exclusive, with monetization allowed, though Beatoven retains ownership of the underlying tracks.
Best for: Fairly-trained background music
- Certified consent-based training data
- Music and sound effects from one tool
- Beatoven retains ownership of generated tracks
- Focused on background cues, not songs
Music generation inside the leading voice platform, next to TTS, dubbing, and sound effects.
ElevenLabs added music generation to a platform best known for voices, so it suits work where music sits beside narration, dubbing, or voice agents. Music is available from the free tier, with commercial use of music starting on the paid Starter plan. ElevenLabs voices are also on Morphic's audio roster, where narration sits beside the video it serves and the timeline that ships it.
Best for: Music beside voice work
- One platform covers voice, dubbing, sound effects, and music
- Music generation available from the free tier
- Music commercial use starts on the paid tier
- Music is a newer line beside its core speech products